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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, V. The swing of the social pendulum. (search)
ch. The same pendulum has been steadily vibrating, indeed, ever since the foundation of our government, and its movements have never had any great or important influence upon the mass of the American people. Be this as it may, it is perfectly certain that the whim in fashion thirty and even twenty years ago was quite unlike what it now is. Good Americans were said, when they died, to go to Paris, and even the wit of Tom Appleton never ventured to suggest that they should go to London. At Newport it was for many years held essential to do things in the French way, not the English. It was at the French court that fashionable Americans yearned to be presented; they uniformly preferred to live on the other side of the English Channel; and I remember to have had this explained to me by a man of some fashion, on the ground that if an ambitious American family lived in Paris they were not vexed at being omitted from this or that entertainment of the nobility; whereas in England, where t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 14 (search)
nly know that, like the birds, they will return in spring. But there is one class of summer toilers by the sea whom we can trace and whose destination we know — the most laborious toilers of all. When the household lights go out, one by one, at Newport or Mount Desert; when the trunks are all packed, and John has seen to the departure of the last load of luggage; when the pretty cottage is locked up, and relapses into the hands of the native Hiram or the foreign-born Dennis, who dwells in the t of pampered bliss; while their lives are unquestionably harder in many cases than any that mill-girl or fisherman's daughter ever imagined. It requires my whole time and strength during the whole summer, said one of this class to me once at Newport, and the whole time and strength of my three daughters, to keep up with the ordinary round of social duties — to welcome our guests, to drive and go to entertainments with them, to receive calls, to make calls, and to keep the ordinary machinery
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 19 (search)
evoted himself to it, or went about to banquets, he was called a vagabond (grassator vocabatur). Hence we were slower to assert ourselves in these finer arts, and when we did, it was with becoming modesty. It was thought daring in Emerson to sing of the bumblebee, or Lowell of the bobolink; as for Whittier, who had never even crossed the Atlantic, how could he sing at all? Especially in the realm of manners this humility has prevailed. During the last French Empire it used to be held at Newport and New York that there was no standard of good-breeding but in Paris, as if the best-bred American society were not of older tradition as well as better strain than the dynasty of the Napoleons. The truth is that the finest American manners are indigenous, not imported. You will find such manners in little towns in Virginia and Kentucky, where not a person has ever seen Europe, and where to have been to Philadelphia or New York is to be a great traveller. Never have I seen more truly gr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 39 (search)
. But with a farmer of untiring benignity, wedded to a spouse of inexhaustible patience, what place is so blissful or healthful to children as a farm? It gives a sphere so unbounded for that delicious and laborious idleness which children call pleasure, there is so much to do and there are such long summer days to do it in, that one pities at this season even the most petted children who are anywhere else. Fancy them driving about, exquisitely dressed, with mamma in her basket-wagon at Newport, when they might be riding home on the loaded hay-cart, or assisting to harness old Dobbin for a drive into some secluded wood-road, scented with sweet-ferns and haunted by the wood-thrush! Or the children on the farm, grown bolder, stand by the farmer's side as he drives over the dry and slippery grass upon his stone-drag — a sort of summer toboggan, with nothing but a board between the rider and the uneven surface of Mother Earth. Arrived at the spring, perhaps, the child sees the farme
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 55 (search)
ved that in these cases of reverting to the early haunts the old house is not always piously preserved, as is so frequently the case in Europe. No American can help being charmed with the ancestral homes of England; there are so few instances in this country of the permanence of a homestead through many generations. Some such there are: in the rural parts of Essex County, Massachusetts, there are farms that have stood for two hundred years under the same family name; and I lived at Newport, Rhode Island, opposite an estate which had never passed by a deed, but was still held by the old Indian title, and was occupied by the fifth or sixth generation of the original stock. But when one thinks of the tremendous price that is paid in England for this permanence — of the unjust and often cruel working of that practice of primogeniture by which it is secured, and of that sea of houseless poverty that is seething all around it — to say nothing of the incidental result attributed to primog
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
Mopsa, 102. Moral equivalence of sexes, 91. more thorough work visible, 286. Morse, S. F. B., 99. mother, on one's Relationship to one's, 43. Mott, Lucretia, 47, 179. Muller, Max, 26. Murfree, M. N., 225, 259, 263. musical woman, The Missing, 249. N. Napoleon. See Bonaparte. Napoleon, Louis, 101. Napoleons, dynasty of the, 98. Nausikaa, 8, 11. Nervousness of men, the, 238. New theory of language, the, 181. Newcome, Ethel, 55. Newell, W. W., 13. Newport, R. I., life at, 71, 98. Nicknames in college, 275. Nightingale, Florence, 19. Nithisdale, Countess of, 56. Normandy, a scene in, 201. Northcote, Sir, Stafford, 136. Norton, Andrews, 18. Norton, C. E., 18. novels: men's and women's, 156. Nursery, a model, 264. O. Odyssey, Palmer's, 248. Opie, Amelia, 157. Orestes, 44. Organizing mind, the, 146. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, quoted, 211, 232. Outside of the shelter, 7. P. Paganini, Nicolo, 238. Palma, Ja